DECEMBER 10 — 1974 The Kissinger Report, Project MK-NAOMI, population control and more; 1778 John Jay elected President of Congress; 2014 5gyres publishes survey of plastic pollution in world oceans
DECEMBER 10
1778 John Jay is elected president of the Continental Congress.
…At the age of 14, Jay was already admitted to King’s College, now Columbia U, and graduated with the highest honors. He became a prominent lawyer of the New York Committee of Correspondence in 1774. Rather than opposing British interference in the American colonies outright, he published a paper called Address to the People of Great Britain which called for a peaceful resolution to the American conflict rather than seek independence. Jay chose not to sign the Declaration of Independence and instead retired from Congress in 1776. In 1777 he attended the New York constitutional convention, served as the first Chief justice and helped draft the state constitution.
On December 10, 1778, he was elected president of the Continental Congress until 1779. In 1782 he signed the Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolution against the UK. He contributed to the Federalist Papers in which he, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton supported the new Federal Constitution. Jay was appointed by George Washington as the first chief justice of the United States. In 1794, he negotiated the Jay Treaty, which focused on resolving military and commercial conflicts with Great Britain regarding western expansion. This treaty was very unpopular with Jefferson’s Republicans, but it was ratified anyway. In fact it was unpopular Jay resigned from the Supreme Court. John Jay would serve as governor of New York until his retirement in 1801.
1906 – HB Walter Zinn. He is credited with initiating the world’s first self sustaining nuclear chain reaction by withdrawing a control rod from the world’s first nuclear reactor in Chicago.
1974 — Kissinger’s genocidal report is completed.
Historians are often split on the legacy of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. On one hand, he was instrumental in helping President Nixon open negotiations with China, led dangerous counterintelligence missions in WWII and advocated nuclear disarmament around the world, he also was the architect of the Cambodia bombing campaign in the Vietnam War, engineered a coup d’état against the Chilean government, and the Kissinger Report, officially titled: National Security Memorandum 200: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U..S. Security and Overseas Interests.
Doesn’t that sound ominous?
What kind of interests you say? Mineral interests, in many cases, oil of course. The WSSM200, as it was called, is called genocidal and population control by some and pro-choice by others. Targeting LDCs, or Less Developed Countries with population booms, concluding India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nigeria, Mexico, Indonesia, Brazil, the Philippines, Thailand, Egypt, turkey, Ethiopia and Columbia. It outlines the programs to be used for the legalization of abortion, financial perks for women who get abortions, sterilization and contraceptives, the indoctrination of children, and other forms of population control, such as the limitations of available funding , food and aid in cases of natural disasters to those countries whose leadership does not comply with the program.
The Kissinger Report also offered plans to cover up American imperialism allegations by getting the United Nations involved. The United States was funding the United Nations Population Fund until April 2017 when President Trump pulled the plug on it.
2006 – LT breaks single season touchdown record.
…According to history.com On December 10, 2006, the San Diego Chargers running back LaDainian Tomlinson racks up his 29th touchdown of the year, breaking the National Football League (NFL) record for touchdowns scored during a single season. Born in 1979, Tomlinson was selected by the Chargers in the first round of the NFL draft in 2001, after a triumphant career at Texas Christian University. As the team’s starting running back, he made an immediate impact, proving lethally effective at rushing, catching and passing. In 2003, he became the first player in NFL history to rush for 1,000 yards and record 100 receptions in the same season.
1919 – Baseball’s National League votes to ban the spitball by all pitchers.
…Elmer Stricklet, who pitched for the Chicago White Sox from 1907-09, and Frank Corridon, who pitched for the Cubs, Phillies and Cardinals from the same time frame, were pioneers of the spitball, but it would be Ed Walsh, who mastered the art of it. Since then, the ball could have a logy hawked to it, via the pitcher’s knee, or top of the cap, or in the pitcher’s hair. Preacher Roe for the 1950 Brooklyn Dodgers called the spitball his money pitch. On this day in 1919 the spitball was voted to be banned a no-go. Which brings me to another 1919 baseball mishap:
1919 – The Black Box Scandal. The White Sox were favored against the Reds 5-1. And they lost. White Sox owner Charles Comiskey had he best team in the league and underpaid them. He wouldn’t even pay for the laundry, and the players socks weren’t white. Nope, The White Sox’s socks were filthy black, actually. New York Jewish mobster Arnold “The Brain” Rothstein covered the finances, and sent featherweight champion Abraham “The Little Hebrew” Attell, as his muscleman.
Pitcher Chick Gandell told eight of his other players in at the Ansonia hotel in New York how the game would be played, and get back at Comiskey for underpaying them. And, they lost to the Reds. All eight men would stand before a jury and be acquitted of charges. Eddie Cicotte (si-cot-tey?) and Shoeless Joe Jackson came forward in the hearing. As a result, the way that baseball was governed by the National Commission changed, from three commissioners to one federal judges: Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who attempted to bring national spirit back into the game of baseball by banning all eight players. For life. Especially Shoeless Joe, who had the highest batting average, and remains ineligible for the Hall of Fame because of it.
1945 — Preston Tucker reveals his plans for the Torpedo. The Tucker 48 was possibly the first car to gain speeds of 150MPH. But only 51 cars would be manufactured as Preston’s company folded in 1949 due to lawsuits regarding fraud. The car original price was proposed at $1,000, but in reality it was more like 4Gs. Director Francis Ford Coppola, a Tucker 48 owner himself, immortalized this beauty in the film Tucker: A Man and His Dream in 1988.